Test Lead
Permanent
07-03-2023
RealTime recruitment are seeking an experienced Test Lead on behalf of a top client within the Financial Services Industry.
This permanent role is based in Dublin City Centre, with a flexible hybrid working model.
To be considered for this position you will have a background within the financial services industry and experience leading large teams (10+ team members)
This permanent role is based in Dublin City Centre, with a flexible hybrid working model.
To be considered for this position you will have a background within the financial services industry and experience leading large teams (10+ team members)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the QA team responsible for the testing of systems across multiple technologies and platforms.
- Review test strategies and artefacts
- Identify and drive opportunities for test excellence to maximise test coverage and reduce execution times, including identifying opportunities to extend automated testing where appropriate.
- Drive QA process improvements
- Coordinate, plan and provide guidance on the Business Acceptance Test strategy, ensuring appropriate test coverage and no duplication of effort with the FIT phase
- Manage & support the team, coaching and mentoring to ensure they have clear objectives and are motivated to achieve maximum potential.
- Ensure the team are following QA Best Practices and work closely with the QA Practice Lead to ensure test approaches are in line with the overall QA strategy
- Manage & coordinate the efficient usage of the test environments in close collaboration with the Test Environment Manager
- Support regulatory/audit/security QA internally and with external partners as needed
Key Skills
- Minimum 5 years in a Test Lead position
- Expert at leading and managing a team of dispersed QA Engineers, supporting, and ensuring high quality and on-time consistent delivery of software
- Strong Web-application testing experience
- Experience managing the coordination of UAT test effort to ensure there an efficient overall test approach
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise across multiple tasks to tight timelines and to coordinate cross teamwork.
- Excellent quality assurance skills and understanding of QA Best Practices
- Strong communication and delegation skills are a must have
- Exposure to test automation (Selenium with Java)
- Agile experience
- Proficient with the Atlassin toolset (Jira and Confluence)
- Experience with Oracle/ SQL Server